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“Three months in to my contract at Bury in March 2014, my father suffered a cardiac arrest followed by a couple of months of ‘rehab’, he shared in a message on social media.

“I had no option but to go home and help take care of my family, which meant I had to risk sacrificing my full-time football career.

“My father eventually passed away in the May of 2014 and it was then I had to make a decision to step back from football and focus my time and energy elsehwere.

“In the months of my absence, Bury continued to pay me my full wage and also released a statement explaining my departure due to my father’s passing, in response to which I received nothing but condolences form the Bury fans,

“It is for this act of kindness that I will always have nothing but gratitude towards the club that helped me and my family in our time of need.”